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I’m new to the fediverse and not sure how it works just yet. Can someone help me understand? My account was created on Lemmy.ml, will it no longer work and I’ll have to make another?
I would make a lemmy world account personally, it's tough to say what will happen long term with .ml domains. Even if your account still works, it may by hampered getting posts from the rest of the fediverse. Worst case scenario you have account on two popular lemmy instances.
I wouldn't bother with world honestly, it's the "main" instance now so it gets targeted a lot, I prefer sh.itjust.works for that reason.
I have main at Lemmy.ml but I created an alt at the KDE server and sync all my subscribed communities there
My "main" account is on .ml but I went ahead and made an account on another instance just in case. It couldn't hurt imo.
Are you aware that ml in lemmy.ml stands for marxism-leninism and that the admins of your instance don't support any critique of the chinese government? I'm asking because I think a lot of new users chose lemmy.ml randomly - mostly because it was big - and if they knew this, many of them would have chosen differently.
I had no clue. I was just tired of Reddit and when looking into Lemmy the .ml one came up first in the search. Guess I get to make a new one somewhere else.
They chose .ml because it was free. They don't delete comments just because they don't agree with them. I don't get why some people feel the need to spread lies about the lemmy devs/lemmy.ml admins just for being in favour of communism.
The claim about .ml meaning that is about as dumb as people saying AC/DC means anti-christ devil-child..
But lemmy.ml absolutely removed posts criticizing china. They also made their beliefs very clear. It wasn't lemmygrad.. but they would absolutely censor anti-china rhetoric, and had many brainwashed or Chinese troll accounts.
They even started censoring certain words on lemmy.ml, including "bitch." I'm not okay with that...
I think the majority of users were normal people who randomly ended up there. But just because this one claim is silly, it doesn't detract from very real issues that existed there.
no one would, because people who already get it act like any of this makes sense
there’s waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much nerding out over how it works, “federating”, and being open instead of being user friendly.
wants to compete with reddit, but its accessibility on a big scale is near 0 with the current approach
Really had high hopes for Lemmy after coming over from Reddit, but the active community here is just so busy jerking off about being federated and banning threads.